🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Whitespotted Butterflyfish live?

Chaetodon kleinii has 7,647 records in 56 countries and territories, from 1837 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesChaetodontidaeChaetodon

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18372026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 2,404
United States 1,546
Indonesia 813
Philippines 357
Seychelles 264
Palau 190
Maldives 161
Fiji 153
Taiwan 153
United States Minor Outlying Islands 152
South Africa 149
Solomon Islands 137
RΓ©union 120
Papua New Guinea 110
New Caledonia 106
Micronesia 61
Mozambique 58
Tonga 57
Vanuatu 50
Tanzania 45
Japan 41
Kiribati 41
Malaysia 38
Kenya 37
India 35
Timor-Leste 35
Nauru 31
Northern Mariana Islands 30
Comoros 26
Guam 25
Mauritius 25
Mayotte 25
Madagascar 22
French Southern Territories 22
Hong Kong 17
Marshall Islands 15
British Indian Ocean Territory 13
Ecuador 10
Thailand 10
Vietnam 10

Showing the top 40 of 56 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.